I am also trying to get this running but unfortunately not succesfull yet. I have a couple of questions.

1. could you please post the complete output of Xine from commandline with --verbose. That might help me getting closer to solve this.

2. I found that linking "/usr/lib/libxine.so.1.17.1" to "/usr/local/lib/libxine.so.1.19.0" changes a lot. "Xine --verbose" then uses the "/usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.10" path instead of "/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.7/" for loading the plugins. But should I use the new 1.1.10 versions or the old ones ? I have now linked all "libxine.so*" I found to the new version.

4. for what kind of files do I get a "burst" in speed ? Will that also work on Demo files like these in this link ?I now test with the " I Am Legend - 1080p Trailer" Blu-ray Profile (the second one) :http://www.h264info.com/clips.html

EDIT: my Core system is an Asus M3A-H/HDMI with an AMD e5050. With the built in HD3200 I am testing at the moment. Not sure if it is gonna work OK with that card. My MD is going to be an Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H hopefully with the onboard HD3200 and also an AMD e5050.

I use a simple solution from the wiki to playback MKV files: change their extension to m2ts and their type to LinuxMCE Blue-ray. It works pretty well. Except some movies cannot be paused, fast forward doesn't work correctly and LinuxMCE doesn't remember the place where movies playback was stopped

your are right, renaming the "I Am Legend" trailer helps on the CPU side but unfortunately the video sometimes slows down a bit and then goes faster again. Also the sound is not allways so good Could you test with the same file on your system if it acts the same way ? Or if it is a problem on my system (ATI driver or whatever).

I use nVidia GeForce 8200 with the latest nVidia drivers and UI2 with overlapping and I don't have such problems. I tested 720p and 1080p. Cannot tell you anything about digital sound since I use analog.

I noticed wehn calling Xine manually in KDE with --verbose that allmost allways showed some errors when it was stuttering - exept from the scene with the gras field where he is walking with his dog. There it was >100% CPU instead.

And it seems that it uses ffmepg_dec as that also gave an message out at some other movie.

OT: I am going to get me an Nvidia 7300GT today an have a look if it is better.What do I have to do to get it running ? Remove the ATI driver, Disable the HD3200 in the bios, turn off, insert Nvidia and boot ? Or do I have to install the driver manually ?

Install the card, disable the onboard in BIOS, then boot - when the GRUB menu comes up, hit ESC and choose recovery mode. From the shell use the instructions in the wiki Display Drivers page to download and install the nVidia driver.

You may have to use lspci to get the PCI bus ID of the card, and then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use this ID on the Bus ID option line. Now reboot and hold the shift key when you hear the decending beeps (when the kubuntu progress bar is on screen) - this will trigger the AV Wizard which in turn will recreate a new xorg.conf file for your new card.

Once LMCE comes up, check that the xorg.conf file still has the correct Bus ID and the driver says nvidia (not nv or vesa)

Anyone have a final verdict on how well this ended up working? I need to find a new solution for my system. Currently I am using the file name change (.mkv to .m2ts) which forces mplayer to play them, unfortunately the picture quality is great but during action scenes the video stutters and gets out of sync with the audio, then the video will speed up a bit and get back in sync. Let me know what you guys think, I dont want to try out this coreavc deal unless someone can confirm that it works and helps with the problem.Thanks,-Krys

Anyone have a final verdict on how well this ended up working? I need to find a new solution for my system. Currently I am using the file name change (.mkv to .m2ts) which forces mplayer to play them, unfortunately the picture quality is great but during action scenes the video stutters and gets out of sync with the audio, then the video will speed up a bit and get back in sync. Let me know what you guys think, I dont want to try out this coreavc deal unless someone can confirm that it works and helps with the problem.Thanks,-Krys

I know, aggravating, but I think the effort and pain involved in doing this will probably be more so! Perhaps whack out an alpha build on some spare hardware and at least confirm that it is likely to fix the issue?

sorry for the late reply. I can definitely confirm again that this method is working, I just did it again yesterday after trashing one of my MDs. The method to rename files works more or less on 720p files but for me it was never acceptable on 1080p ones. To answer your questions:

1. Please give me some time for that, as I'm not near the right machine to do that right now.But basically this: xine: found demuxer plugin: Apple Quicktime (MOV) and MPEG-4 demux pluginsays that xine is using one of it's own plugins, not Coreavc. Are you even sure that this file is H264 / X264? CoreAVC is only usefull for this codec, not for high def MPEG2 for example.Another way to see if it's working is to do a top while you;re playing one of the files. If it works, you will see dshowserver as one of the top 3 processes, instead of Xine_Player

2. As far as I remember, there are 3 places with this library on your system:/usr/local/lib which is where the new library gets installed, but no program uses this pathXine_Player uses the library in /opt/libxine/liband Xine or Kaffeine from KDE use the one in /usr/libSo if you need to try it in KDE you need to link in /usr/lib, and for lmce. you need to link at /opt/libxine/libI did not notice that the path for plugins was changing, but this did not cause any probelms on my system. I use this solution for over 6 months and I'm still able to play any kind of video or audio format that was playing before.

3. The charon-merge branch didn't exist anymore the last time I tried this, so I used trunk instead and updated the wiki page. Note that when you do the make for the dev environement, it does not overwrite any LMCE components in your system, so it should not trash anything. It just builds inside the trunk directory and installs some missing libraries. And I just installed CoreAVC in this manner last night and my system if fine.

4. Only for files using the X264 or H264 codec. The files in your link should be exactly what you need.

I hope this is somewhat helpfull! Just make sure not to use a CoreAVC version newer than 1.8.0, as this did not work on my system.